Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Sample (USA)

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  Sample (USA)

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  Sample (France), 1909–12

  Piece of sheer silk embroidered with stylized lily-like forms with thin crossing stems, in off-white and pale yellow silks on white silk chiffon and net.

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  Box And Cover (Denmark), 20th century

  Cover: figure of a white reclining cat, ears and eyes touched with color. Copenhagen mark in underglaze blue. Box: irregular shape with frieze of grey-painted mice. Projection forms right rear…

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  Dado (England), 1817–27

  Simulates wooden Chinese fretwork railing with elements repeating horizontally. An illusion of depth is achieved by means of shadows against yellow irregular wave background. Printed in purple on yellow ground.

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  Dado (France), 1810

  A horizontal rectangle shows two children. The boy has placed a board over a small brook and the girl is in the act of crossing over. A floral rope marks…

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  Sample, Large Stem Taff, late 19th–early 20th century

  Medium-scale floral in the Chinoiserie style, with foliage including bamboo and tree peony, in blues, greens, yellow and tan with balck outline on a cream ground. Narrow plain selvedge with…

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  Sample, Loddon, late 19th–early 20th century

  Large-scale symmetrical design of intertwined stems forming arabesques and ogees, with large flower heads, in blue, green, and yellow with black outline on white ground. Double warps.

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  Sample, Trent, late 19th–early 20th century

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  Sample, Corncockle, designed 1883

  Large-scale design of cornflowers and artichoke-like flower heads on curving stems in pink, greens, blue, white and dark green outlines, on a white ground with yellow dots and all-over pattern…